Motivational Quotes

Experience

A strong and secure man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds alike) just as he digests his meat, even when he has some bits to swallow.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Experience

The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.

Proverb, Persian

Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

Ford, Gerald R.

Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life.

Bellin, Gita

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair.

Stern, Judith

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience -- well, that comes from poor judgment.

Woodman, Cousin

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else, if they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers.

Fun, Brigham Young

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Twain, Mark

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The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.

Twain, Mark

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You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past -- whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Dylan, Bob

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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Barry LePatner

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Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

Tracy, Brian

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Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

Campbell, Joseph

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.

Proverb, Chinese

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Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else.

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Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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Experience is a wonderful thing, it enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

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Experience keeps a school, yet fools will learn in no other.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Kafka, Franz

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A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best.

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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Vernon Sanders Law

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Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

Daumal, Rene

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Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Marx, Karl

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Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.

Heinlein, Robert

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Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

Getty, J. Paul

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Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else.

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You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

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In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well oiled in the closet, but unused.

Hemingway, Ernest

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

Doctorow, E. L.

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Godwin, Gail

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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

Proverb, Italian

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The rules which experience suggest are better than those which theorists elaborate in their libraries.

Storrs, R. S.

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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

Augustine, St.

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Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.

Bax, Arnold

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Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Billings, Josh